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Evolve Dammit

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8. Good historical account. When BP announced "Beyond Petroleum" I was briefly optimistic. Then Deep Horizon.. 23,000

Reply to haricotblue (Original post)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 07:45 PM

Jan 2025

(yeah 23,000) abandoned wells in Gulf of MEXICO. No monitoring of them that I know of. What the F could go wrong? And that is just one body of ocean in our "control" environmentally speaking. At least for another 11 days.....

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